Reese Witherspoon has set a wedding date! She will marry agent Jim Toth on March 26 at her 7-acre ranch in Ojai Valley. Rumor has it the ceremony will be relatively small — 100 people or so — and the bride will wear Monique Lhuillier. Expect lots of candles and flowers everywhere, and a generally romantic atmosphere, duh. Witherspoon is not expected to take Toth’s last name, and not just because it sounds like an icy planet from Star Wars. [Radar Online]
Mindy Kaling on Steve Carrell leaving The Office: “People were in tears and stuff like that… He’s not dying… He’s going to go be a movie star. I felt a little bit, like, heartless… but whatever.” [Vulture]
Edgy! Beyoncé is going to work with Frank Ocean from Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All! [Wonder Wall]
Ooh! And! Beyoncé and Jay-Z will both perform on a track for Dr. Dre‘s album. Hot. [The Sun]
In case you missed it: Snooki. In the ring. Wrestlemania. WTF. [NYDN]
- Katy Perry‘s Evangelical Christian mother is shopping a book proposal, which reveals that she loves her daughter, but disagrees with a lot of choices the pop star has made. Shocker! You don’t have to sing a song called “Ur So Gay” for your mom to be simultaneously proud yet disappointed in you, that shit is universal. [Page Six]
- Drew Barrymore will direct the romcom How To Be Single, adapted from the bestselling novel by Liz Tuccillo — who also wrote He’s Just Not That Into You. You’ve been warned. [The Wrap]
- Playgirl has offered $10,000 for nude pictures of Anderson Cooper. Darlings, he’s a Vanderbilt. Not only is nudity declassé, ten grand is a horribly vulgar number. So very low. [Pop Eater]
- Demi Lovato got a tattoo in honor of her fans. [PopDirt]
- Blythe Danner would appear on Glee with daughter Gwyneth if asked, and seriously, why hasn’t she been asked? [Digital Spy]
- Charlie Sheen continues to believe that he is winning, and since the first live performance of his tour is sold out, he may have a point. A tragic point, but a point all the same. [x17]
- Have The Bachelor‘s Brad and Emily already broken up? [Pop Eater]
- Seann William Scott has entered a treatment center for “health and personal issues.” [People]
- The image of Ed Westwick wry, laughing and drunk will now be locked away in my late-night fantasy vault. [Page Six]
- Oh yes, definitely the most important thing about Lindsay Lohan‘s life right now is the brand of jeans she is spotted wearing. Without a doubt. [Page Six]
- This column describes Lindsay Lohan as a “trouble doll.” [Gatecrasher]
- Lindsay Lohan is no longer talking to her dad. [Radar Online]
- Aretha Franklin‘s new song is about her relationship with a younger man. “I thought my ship had come in and, darling, that wasn’t my ship; that was somebody else’s ship. We had different goals,” she says. Not to mention: “He thought I was about 20 years younger than I actually am.” [Wonder Wall].
- Bill Cosby told Russell Simmons to “get the fuck out of my face,” so it seems their feud is ongoing. [Page Six]
- Elizabeth Hurley has been cast as Wonder Woman‘s nemesis Veronica Cale on the new NBC show. No doubt Liz will make an excellent villain. [Yeeeah]
- Try to get excited about Joe Jonas on the cover of Details. [Just Jared]
- Janet Jackson is going to be a film producer! She says: “Many people forget I started out as an actor. I have been fortunate to work in the film industry, though not as much as I would like. I have a passion for storytelling, and have been doing it through my music for some time.” [The Hollywood Reporter]
- Blind items!!! 1. Which former squeaky-clean child actor was recently spotted buying drugs openly on the street in the West Village? 2. Which lusty director has been ordering hookers to the set of his latest movie? 3. Which actor recently linked to a series of starlets has been secretly sleeping with a man? 4. Which female publicist ruined a friend’s birthday party at a New York club last weekend by urinating in the middle of the dance floor, causing guests to slip and fall in the mess? Hmm, is Jake Gyllenhaal the answer for one of these? [Page Six]
- Breaking: Tom Waits is Edward Cullen. [Vulture]
- RIP Nate Dogg. You made every song better. [CBS via Death Beeper, Press Telegram]
- Snoop Dogg‘s Tweets about Nate Dogg: Heartbreaking. [Bossip]
- “I was a rotten father at a time when she really needed me. I hit the bottle so hard that I am pretty much oblivious to anything that happened to me for three years. I was not there for my daughter when I should have been and I have regretted that every second of every day to this moment now. It tears me up inside.” — Adele‘s father. [The Sun]
- “It was just something that happened… The good thing is, we both realized it… Sometimes you just realize it. It just wasn’t right. It’s interesting… things happen!” — Bradley Cooper on his four-month marriage to Jennifer Esposito. [Us Magazine]